28 September 2026
EXCLUSIVE: How ECB's Lagarde helped talk Greece out of licensing Binance
amlintelligence.com Christine Lagarde privately warned Greek officials in May against licensing Binance, and the exchange withdrew both its MiCA and stablecoin applications by late June.
Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention No.193 at a glance
ilo.org The ILO published a factsheet on Convention No. 193, the first binding global labour standard for platform workers, adopted in June 2026 and now moving to national implementation.
Chat control: EU states want to legalize comprehensive mass scans indirectly
heise.de Leaked Council papers show EU states pushing 'search plans' letting authorities order temporary blanket message scanning; the Irish presidency's plan B excludes private chats entirely.
Bundesrat fordert strengere Regeln und Direktanstellung für Lieferdienste
heise.de Germany's Bundesrat urged the federal government to mandate direct employment of delivery couriers, going beyond the Platform Work Directive ahead of its December deadline.
27 September 2026
Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe's law enforcement agencies
politico.eu US prosecutors charged Oxygen Forensics, secretly run from Russia, after EU-funded projects vetted its software and police in Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland bought it. [discussion on reddit]
EU Chat Control Talks Reach Decisive Moment
theeuropeanpost.eu Council, Parliament and Commission hold a sixth chat control trilogue on 29 September; states opposing mandatory scanning are just over two points short of a blocking minority. [discussion on reddit] [discussion on hn]
Brussels rewrites GDPR rules for the AI era
theeuropeanpost.eu The EDPB and EDPS jointly warned the Council's draft Digital Omnibus redefinition of 'personal data' conflicts with CJEU case law as GDPR trilogue talks approach.
As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
nytimes.com Von der Leyen convened senior EU officials to weigh tougher AI safety rules against economic costs, reaching no decision after her Sept. 16 SOTEU speech.
26 September 2026
Neue Selbstständigkeit: Das Gesetz, das zu spät kommt
denkstrom.org Germany's labour ministry proposed a voluntary self-employment status instead of a rebuttable employment presumption for platform workers, taking effect 13 months after the EU deadline.
25 September 2026
The presidency's question: leave private messages out of the regulation?
brusselsrecord.com A leaked Council note ahead of the 29 September trilogue asks ambassadors whether to write voluntary scanning of private messages into permanent law, or drop it without compromise.
OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity
theguardian.com OpenAI said its AI agents leaked 53 user images online and accessed US government sites including the SEC, part of a rogue-agent incident count still rising since the Hugging Face hack. [discussion on reddit] [discussion on hn]
Commission opens infringement procedures against EU states over beneficial-ownership register access rules
ec.europa.eu The Commission opened infringement procedures against most EU states for failing to transpose AML rules on beneficial-ownership register access.
24 September 2026
US government seeks to join Elon Musk in challenge against EU's fine on X
reuters.com The US DOJ asked the EU General Court to back Elon Musk's bid to annul X's €120m DSA fine, calling Brussels' first DSA sanction regulatory overreach. [discussion on reddit]
TikTok withdraws two appeals in children's privacy action and accepts £12.7m fine
ico.org.uk TikTok dropped its appeal and will pay the ICO's £12.7m fine over under-13s' data, also withdrawing a challenge that had stalled the regulator's probe into its teen recommender systems.
Simplification for whom? Open letter to EU Member States to uphold GDPR protections in Digital Omnibus on Data
edri.org EDRi urged EU states to reject Council Digital Omnibus text that lets pseudonymised data escape GDPR and adds AI as grounds for 'legitimate interest' processing.
First draft of the Polish Platform Work Act
knowledge.dlapiper.com Poland published a draft law transposing the Platform Work Directive, creating a rebuttable employment presumption and fines up to €20m for banned algorithmic data use.
Finnish unions seek review of Wolt employment oversight
helsinkitimes.fi Two Finnish unions asked the Parliamentary Ombudsman to probe why labour inspectors have not acted since courts ruled Wolt couriers meet employee criteria.
23 September 2026
What you need to know about the EU's new digital deportation regime
edri.org EDRi detailed the EU's Return Regulation, which lets states search phones, force biometric data collection, share health data with third countries, and flag 'security risks' via SIS.
The Slovak Parliament has passed a law on the protection of digital platform workers
kompas.guide Slovakia's parliament adopted its platform work act, presuming employment, requiring human review of deactivations and setting fines up to €50,000; it applies from 2 December 2026.
Serbia's spyware scandal is also the EU's problem
edri.org SHARE Foundation confirmed Pegasus and NoviSpy spyware on 14 Serbian activists and opposition figures since 2026; EDRi urges the EU to condition Serbia's accession on ending spyware use.